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Makes me wonder what's the largest web / service operated by the fewest amount of people?
by dirtyid 4y ago
Makes me wonder what's the largest web / service operated by the fewest amount of people?
- frogperson 4y agoI'm not sure if it's still true, but Craigslist used to be run with 8 people.
- eesmith 4y agoIts Wikipedia entry says "By April 2000, there were nine employees working out of Newmark's San Francisco apartment" and says there were 50 employees in 2017.
- rogerkirkness 4y agoSignal is 40 people and approaching 100M users.
- bergenty 4y agoAmazing. No cushy jobs there.
- barbazoo 4y ago40 people? Why does it take 40 people to run a ... no just kidding.
- tinyhouse 4y agoDo they have revenue? When they make $5B/year with 40 people we can compare it to Twitter. Most people in tech companies are not there to run the core product.
- rogerkirkness 4y agoIt's a non profit, and they do sustain themselves with donations at this point. I thought we were comparing team to impact but I agree re: business functions.
- dmarcos 4y agoI remember the reports of Instagram having more than 50 million users and 13 employees when acquired by Facebook. https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-first-13-employees-full-list-2020-4?amp https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-first-13-employees...
- dmarcos 4y agoWhatsApp apparently had only 50 engineers and 900M users when it was acquired. https://www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-serves-900-million-users-50-engineers/ https://www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-serves-900-million-us...
- TrackerFF 4y agoNot sure if websites are allowed, but (the infamous) W3Schools have something like 60M unique monthly visitors. They are 5 employees.